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overleap

British pronunciation/ˌəʊvəlˈiːp/
American pronunciation/ˌoʊvɚlˈiːp/
to overleap
[VERB]
MAIN VERB
1

leave undone or leave out

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2

jump across or leap over (an obstacle)

synonyms : vault
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3

defeat (oneself) by going too far

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Examples
1And within five years, he had become a named full professor first at Harvard, then at Vanderbilt, then at Duke, and had completely overleaped those 20 years that he had been gone.
2Milton, too, manages with a word like this to remind us that we're only seeing the garden after Satan has overleaped its boundaries and has begun sneaking around.
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